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ISBN: 184243179X
EAN: 9781842431795
Price: £18.99
Casing: Hardback
Format: Royal (234 x 156mm)
Extent: 352pp
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Pub. Date: October 2006

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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James Grady has published more than a dozen novels, a handful of short stories, and worked in both feature films and television. His first novel, SIX DAYS OF THE CONDOR, was made into a classic Robert Redford movie. Grady's been both U.S. Senate aide and a national investigative reporter. Grady's writing honors include France's Grand Prix du Roman Noir (2001) and Italy's Raymond Chandler Medal (2003). He has two children, lives with his wife inside Washington, D.C.'s beltway.
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ABOUT THE BOOK

Five deranged CIA killers break out from a secret insane asylum for retired agents...

James Grady revolutionized thrillers with his first novel 'Six Days of the Condor'. Now Grady breaks out of all genre limitations with 'Mad Dogs', a stunning novel launched from a totally original creation: the CIA's secret insane asylum for retired agents.

Five deranged CIA killers, all of them dependent on their meds, and deep in the woods of Maine, are forced to break out when someone murders their psychiatrist.

Like the central character of 'Motherless Brooklyn', they operate under somewhat skewed perceptions of the real world. Their training, however, has prepared them to survive in an unfriendly world - even if that world is the Boston to Washington corridor as they chase down the real killer.

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CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"...Mental is not the word for this book, brilliant is...." - Mark Timlin, The Independent On Sunday

"...Mad Dogs is the literary equivalent of a supercharged Hemi, a rock-and-roll road novel that roars out of the gate and never slows pace. James Grady, the king of the modern espionage thriller, is back with a vengeance..." - George Pelecanos,

"...What a pleasure to be in the hands of a master storyteller. James Grady's Mad Dogs starts off with one of the best first sentences I've read in a long time and goes full-throttle, pedal-to-the-floor right up until the final page. A great, great read..." - Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River

"...a stunning thriller, compassionate but unsentimental, brutal and disquieting. In a mad world, who is really in charge of the lunatics?..." - Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph

"...James Grady writes it straight, pure and hot as lava...." - Stephen Coonts,

"...Grady is a master of intrigue...." - John Grisham,

"...Hilarious and ingenious, this is a caper with a wicked difference..." - Maxim Jakubowski, The Guardian

"...His first novel (Six Days of the Condor, 1974) may still be his best, but this one gets points for sheer weirdness...." - David Pitt, Booklist

"...(Grady is) a master of blending real life and fiction ..." - John Marks, co-author of 'The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence',

"...James Grady is a master of Washington intrigue..." - Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist,

"...Could this new novel from a veteran writer/reporter be the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest of the cyber-generation? Indisputably, it belongs in every suspense collection...." - Barbara Conaty, Library Journal (U.S.)

"...Totally original..." - Myles McWeeney, Irish Independent